Treatment of Native Americans Timeline

  • Indian Removal Act

    institutionalized forcing Natives off their land to make room for European settlers
  • Indian Appropriations Act

    Allowed reservations in Oklahoma and inspired reservations in other states.
  • Sioux Treaty

    Sioux Treaty

    Americans and Europeans put havoc on the Indians living their.
  • The Ghost Dance

    The Ghost Dance

    On a solar eclipse a Wovoka shaman had a vision that god appeared to him so they did the dance for him
  • The destruction and resurrection of the reservation system

    Passed the Daws act which ended the reservation system
  • The Dawes Act

    The Dawes Act

    Allowed the government to divide tribal lands into individual plots, only the people who accepted became U.S citizens
  • Wounded Knee

    Wounded Knee

    7th calvary sounded Indians at wounded knee river
  • US Indian Reorganization Act

    Allowed Indians to reorganize and make their own government